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When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.


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ABRAHAM LINCOLN We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many y...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the n...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I was on the abutment.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, b...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opene...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the ...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co...
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus ...
ABRAHAM ROBINSON Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY Money has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star wh...
ABRAHAM PAIS The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up und...
ABRAHAM PAIS One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to...
ABRAHAM PAIS One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to kn...
ABRAHAM PAIS I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I c...
ABRAHAM PAIS Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one meth...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-J...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
ABRAHAM MASLOW We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the go...
ABRAHAM MASLOW